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Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it,…
Sharing: #LearningIs making
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Want to improve your student’s brain power? Open a window.
Stuffy offices can halve cognitive scores The best way to tackle a tough task at work may be to crack a window and breathe deep. Compared with inhaling fresh air, gulping down the stale air found in conventional office buildings can stifle cognitive function by half, researchers report in Environmental Health Perspectives. The finding suggests…
The funniest TED Talks
Source: The funniest TED Talks | TED Talks What can I say, it’s all in the title. Ok, maybe I will add a comment. These talks could be an incentive to get students to watch Ted Talks in a new light, one where the students realize that they could actually enjoy a Ted Talk.
Free textbooks from LibreTexts
Source: LibreTexts – Free The Textbook LibreTexts is a source of textbooks for multiple subjects. The content level is geared more to the college level, but since everything licensed Creative Commons with the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, you are free to Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build…